AMD is underlining the ebergy efficiecy of the new chips, saying that systems based on the 2012 AMD E-Series APU can deliver up to 11 hours of resting battery life and up to a 90 minute competitive advantage in Web browsing and online flash gaming.

AMD Steady Video technology helps remove shakes and jitters from online or other video files. The technology has plug-in support for major Web browsers along with Windows Media Player and the open source VLC player.

The new netbook platform is also offering built-in AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series graphics with DirectX 11 and DirectCompute support for gaming.

AMD has also collaborated with Microsoft to optimize the new AMD E-Series APUs for key features in Microsoft Windows 8. Optimizations for HTML5 and full support for the new Metro user interface will help accelerate new Metro-based apps developed for Microsoft's newest operating system.

AMD's E-series dual-core APUs for ultrabooks inludes the E2-1800 and the E1-1200 models. Both 40nm chips have a 18W TDP and are clocked at 1.7GHz and 1.4GHz, respectively. They support DDR3-1333/DDR3L-1333/ DDR3U-1066 memory and have 1MB L2 cache. The E2-1800 features Radaon HD 7340 GPU cores slocked at 680MHz (max) / 523MHz (base). The E1-1200 APU is using the Radeon HD7310 GPU clocked at a fixed frequency of 500MHz.

At Computex, AMD also showcased a tablet-laptop hybrid running on the company's A-series chips (Trinity - 17W). The prototype device had a 11.6-inch detachable touchscreen that could be used as a tablet when undocked from the laptop. It was made by Compal.

Customers can potentially take the Compal reference design and offer touch tablet-laptop hybrids with AMD's Trinity chips at a lower price than similar Intel's Ivy Bridge designs, AMD said.

AMD claims that its on-chip graphics performance is superior than the graphics on Ivy Bridge.